Delivering broadband to rural regions has never been more critical. Small communities face sustained struggles from the long term effects of Covid-19, increasing the flow of young people to the cities and leaving small and medium sized businesses in the dust with wheezing internet connections. For all the billions of dollars promised to fiber infrastructure upgrades, the fact of the matter is that many communities will forever be forgotten by network operators and governments alike. In the UK market, we’re talking about the forgotten 2%, or approximately 590,000 premises that are without access to broadband connections up to the standards of handling the demands of a typical household today. Even using the word “demands” seems unfair for something that was…